Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind

Chapter 4: Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity
On top of everything else, he promises that pollution, world
starvation, and poverty will be 100% resolved. Consequently, would that
justify the continuous pollution and destruction of Planet Earth we see today?
Certain people seem to think so.
Hopelessly Behind?
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t’s important for the AI movement (from now on I will
interchangeably call it the Movement, with a capital M) that we all
understand what the implications of the Singularity are. Dr. Kurzweil
makes it clear that if we are not on the bandwagon, we’ll be an inferior
species; indeed, a very inferior species, according to their norms. In a Q&A
session, he writes the following:
Nonbiological intelligence will have access to its own design and will be able
to improve itself in an increasingly rapid redesign cycle. We’ll get to a point
where technical progress will be so fast that unenhanced human
intelligence will be unable to follow it. That will mark the Singularity. 81
This will be shocking for people once this sinks into their minds; it
will make them think that there is no choice. Do they want to live amongst
cyborgs that can redesign and improve themselves in such unimaginable
speed that those who are opting out of the Singularity can’t even fathom it?
Most people will be scared, and after having thought it through a few times,
many will voluntarily join the Movement, or otherwise be left behind.
People need to learn how to see through this silly propaganda and
refuse to participate in the AIF programs. Contrary to what the Movement
says, we are not mechanical, and we are not machines; we are spiritual
beings, and the Singularity is not a natural process in our evolution—unless
we are manipulated into believing that we are.
The evolution from being genetically manipulated slaves to becoming
free spiritual beings again will only take as long as we let it. We are only
trapped so long as we decide we want to remain trapped. On the other side
of this entrapment is freedom—freedom of thought, freedom of
imagination, freedom of intention, and freedom of action—no technology
and no SBC needed! These freedoms are paramount in order for us to be
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